Managing your wages and
salaries
Peace of mind with HMRC accredited software
Stay up to date and be confident that you have all the essential
calculations of tax, National Insurance and statutory payments with
our HMRC accredited payroll software.
Payroll made simple with automatic
calculations
Payroll legislation can be complex, but with Sage 50 Payroll
2010 you’ll have all the payroll essentials covered. Make light
work of:
- Tax and National Insurance
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP),
Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP)
- Student Loans, Attachments of Earnings Orders (AEO),
Pensions
The nuts and bolts of processing your
payroll
Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: Sage 50
Payroll 2010 caters for all business types by dealing with payments
such as overtime rates, shift allowances and commissions
- Net to gross payments: You can enter payment information as a
net or gross amount and all calculations will be taken care of
- Net payment types: You can add one-off or regular additional
payments based at net value and all calculations are taken care
of
- Batch timesheet entry: Makes payment entry even quicker
- Multi-company: If you're running a bureau or processing over
more than one company, you can update the payroll for all or a
selected range of companies
- Multi-user: The network functionality allows more than one user
to process the payroll
Pay everyone at the right rate
No matter how you pay your employees, whether you use
commission, bonus, piecework or a simple hourly rate, Sage 50
Payroll 2010 can help make sure you meet your legal obligations to
pay the appropriate minimum wage, by taking care of all the
calculations.
Easier to manage your payroll
When it comes to importing information into your payroll
software, Sage 50 Payroll 2010 helps you keep control of every
detail.
You'll no longer have to enter different rates of pay for things
like overtime, bonuses and commissions on separate lines. Ideal if
you process payroll remotely or receive timesheets from a number of
different departments.
Enter payments and deductions on the same screen, so things like
social club membership subscriptions are easy to identify and
account for.
We've made it easier to add pay elements, and there are also
increased decimal places to give you even greater flexibility when
fractions of money are used.
Foreign bank details can be recorded in employee records, and
you can choose the type of employment for each of your
employees.
We've also lengthened the company name field to make things more
convenient.
Easier to manage your less
common tasks
Quick links give you a new panel that's always in clear view,
allowing you to find and execute those less common tasks more
easily whether that's recording sickness, maternity, paternity,
adoption or printing historical reports, past payslips, or even P32
reports.
The features within our quick links menu have been simplified,
to make it easier for you to run your payroll quickly and
efficiently.
Manage your payroll
costs
Understand how changes to your payroll can affect your finances.
Predict the impact of pay increases, bonuses or overtime plans with
the salary forecast tool.
One payroll: many payment intervals
Sage 50 Payroll 2010 deals with weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly
and monthly payment periods, making it easy for you to manage your
multiple payment intervals.
Say goodbye to complex final pay calculations for
leavers
It’s easy to calculate final pay when an employee leaves with
Sage 50 Payroll 2010. You can automatically calculate outstanding
payments and deductions, including attachment of earnings, holiday
payments or company loans.
Overtime, bonus and commission calculations at the touch
of a button
Save yourself some time every pay run by automating extra
payments for your employees, such as calculating double time,
tax-free payments, percentage bonuses and extra pay.
By creating formulas for each of your rewards, which can be
applied to any employee's base rate, you don't have to spend time
manually calculating extra pay.
Take a break from complex holiday
calculations
When you've got people that work varying hours or shifts, it can
become complex working out holiday entitlement and managing
multiple holiday schemes. With Sage 50 Payroll 2010 you can
calculate average pay and the holiday payment due for staff working
both regular and irregular hours.
Your payslips
There’s a wide choice of layouts for your payslips which can be
printed on plain paper or Sage Stationery. And if you want to
personalise them, you can by adding messages and logos.
Go green with secure electronic payslips
Provide a greener and speedier alternative to traditional
printed forms with electronic payslips. Apply password protection
for added security and peace of mind. By using or adapting the
ready-made email payslip templates all you’ll need to do is tick a
box and Sage 50 Payroll 2010 will automatically generate and email
them out.
Paying your staff
Whether you pay your employees by cash, cheque, BACS or
e-Banking, all of these are taken care of with Sage 50 Payroll
2010.
Making the most of online banking
With Sage 50 Payroll 2010, we’ve included all the tools you need
to use e-banking services as standard. So even if your bank charges
you an additional fee for its online services, we don’t.
Because we know that by 2010 all businesses will have to make
payments to HMRC online, it's our way of helping you stay one step
ahead by making the best of technology.
Working with your accountancy software
Sage 50 Payroll 2010 can link with your Sage 50 Accounts
software so you can update your accounts with your payroll
payments, and spend less time re-keying data.
Managing your employees
Give your people the information they need
By law, everyone must be provided with a Written Statement of
Employment Particulars.
Take the hassle out of recording the right information with Sage
50 Payroll 2010. When you add a new person their statement is
created automatically and prompts will remind you to update
contracts when necessary. You can print or email your contracts,
scan and store them within your software, giving you a complete
history.
Previous payslips can be accessed in seconds, so when an
employee comes to you and needs printed copies, or even if you just
need to check them on screen, it's now easier than to do so.
Your employee records in one place
Store all your employee information securely in one place. You
can also store information on: appraisals, disciplinary records,
job and salary history. And the absence and holiday diary lets you
record all employee absences.
The list used to view your employees has been cleverly reordered
and simplified so that the most important elements come first, with
new columns for adding any additional information you need to
store.
Apply changes to more than one record in one
go
Sage 50 Payroll 2010 gives you the tools you need to apply many
changes to a whole range of employees all in one go.
Create your own individual employee groups
Select groups of employees not linked by department or cost
centre and apply actions to this group. For example, select your
part-time staff to do a separate pay run. Save these groups for
future use.
Add notes to keep track of changes
Add notes when entering payments as a reminder of why a specific
event or action was taken when you’re processing the payroll.
Save time with your in-year submissions
There’s no need for you to spend hours re-keying information
from HMRC when you get your in-year submissions via the
internet.
Amendments received from HMRC, such as tax code changes, can be
applied directly to employee records, saving you time and effort.
And as it is a secure mailbox you know only you and HMRC can access
it.
Your e-submissions can also be tracked by status and sender, so
when you submit your PYE returns online (a mandatory requirement
for businesses in April 2010) you can see their status and the name
of the person who sent them.
Manage your documents effectively
Make your HR information more accessible and easier to manage
with our Document Manager. You can store, modify and print
documents from software such as Microsoft Word and Excel, giving
you instant access to documents pertaining to employee and company
data.
Apply password protection to secure PDF documents and ensure
your business information remains confidential.
Add new employees quickly and easily
Take the effort out of adding new employees by simply entering
their personal details and copy information such as payment rates,
pension and holiday schemes from another employee.
The screen for entering new employees has been simplified,
making it easier when a new person joins your business.
Security you can trust
Sage 50 Payroll 2010 allows you to be confident that you are
storing and handling staff information securely. You even have the
flexibility to restrict access to information contained with an
employee record.
Managing your time
Keep track of all your day-to-day tasks with a clear calendar
and reminders. See all your daily task reminders on one screen.
Simply open for more details, dismiss or delete them to make sure
everyhting’s crossed off your ‘to do’ list.
Never forget a deadline or due date
Automatic reminders prompt you when you need to take actions,
for example when you’re due to submit returns to HMRC.
Managing your reports and analysis
Create the right reports and stay compliant
Automatically collate the right data and produce your statutory
reports, such as P11, P32 and P45, from within your Sage 50 Payroll
2010 software.
Save time producing your most popular
reports
Identify the reports you run most frequently from a choice of
over 250. You can then group them and produce multiple reports at
the touch of a button.
The right reports for your business
This feature allows you to edit existing reports or create your
own. This way you can produce reports to meet with your needs. All
reports can be emailed in HTML or PDF format.
Stay in control, no matter what
Be confident that your payroll data is reliable and up to date
with tools to help you validate your payroll against current
legislation. So you’ll have peace of mind before you submit the
details to HMRC.
And if you do have a visit from HMRC you’ll have the right
information on hand, and in the correct format for the inspector
with our comprehensive reports.
Have more control over your figures
Get more out of your payroll data by breaking down figures by
department or cost centre.
Easily access your historical data
Eliminate the need for restoring prior-year back-ups or
searching through endless paperwork to answer employee or HMRC
queries. With seven-year storage, you can easily reprint or view
payslips and produce statutory reports from previous tax years.
Work with your other software &
services
If other people in your company need to access or analyse
payroll information, simply link your Microsoft® Excel
spreadsheet directly to your payroll data. This information can
then be viewed without the need to install Sage 50 Payroll on their
computer.
And as it integrates with Microsoft® Office you can also export
your data and do useful things like run mail merges for employee
letters.
In fact, everything about Sage 50 Payroll 2010 has been
specifically designed to work seamlessly alongside other software,
such as Sage 50 HR 2010, to allow your data to be transferred
quickly and without hassle.
You can even access your Sage Cover services from your payroll
software... so you can choose whatever service you need without
opening and closing new windows.
Keep track of changes
You can easily track any changes that have taken place: when
they took place and who made them.
Advanced Data Import wizard
Import information from sources including Excel, CSV and other
payroll software by mapping columns to their equivalents in your
payroll. Save your settings to perform the same data imports time
and time again with the minimum of fuss and less chance of
mistakes.
Import and export employee data
Import and export between CSV files and Sage 50 Payroll to help
you set up your payroll or import data from timesheets.
Easily import timesheet data
Import and export data contained within a CSV file to and from
Sage 50 Payroll. This can be used to set up payroll and import
timesheets, ideal if timesheets are managed by other personnel such
as operational or departmental managers. In Sage 50 Payroll 2010,
the screen for entering these timesheets has also been
simplified.
Managing your payroll year end
With you every step of the way
The useful wizards and special user guides will take you through
all the steps you need to take to make sure your payroll year end
goes smoothly.
Take care of all your year end reports
Your P11s, P14s and P60s are all taken care of with Sage 50
Payroll 2010, so you can be sure you are running an efficient and
compliant payroll year end.
Continue processing over payroll year end
Reduce the pressure of payroll year end on your business by
continuing to process in the new tax year before completing your
year end.
Submissions/HMRC Secure Mailbox
Speed up your year end returns by submitting them
electronically, totally securely.